- LISTEN TO THE FANS
Quoth the Stan Lee, “Never give the fans what they think they want.”
Indeed. The writer of Animorphs, Katherine Applegate, had a good answer to fan inquiries about the ending of the books.
War sucks. People die. I’m not going to write a happy ending. Deal with it.
Fans might want a happy ending, but the creator doesn’t always want the same. Fan-creator relationships can be fascinating, in the parasocial sense.